Deciduous shrubs or small trees are 5- 10 meters above sea level, with gray bark and flaky peeling, and the new skin is smooth and yellow-brown. Branchlets are purplish red spiny branchlets. Leaves are oblong-ovate, rarely obovate, serrated, and the back of young leaves is tomentose. It is 5- 10 cm long and 3.5-8.0 cm wide, with a sharp point, a sharp serrated edge and a glandular point at the tip of the tooth. Flowers are solitary in leaf axils, red or white, 2.5-3.0 cm in diameter, and have fragrance when they bloom on leaves at the same time or later. The fruit is melon-like, oval, long 10- 15 cm, dark yellow, woody and fragrant. Flowering in April, fruit ripening in September -65438+ 10.
Papaya is mainly produced in Hainan and Taiwan Province Province, and the quality of papaya produced in Hainan is the best. Hainan papaya can be divided into ordinary papaya and vegetable papaya: ordinary papaya tastes sweet and has a strong aroma; Papaya is the best vegetable seasoning. Papaya is the best in Hainan in autumn and winter.
Papaya is a kind of disease-resistant and healthy fruit, also known as Wanshou melon. It only takes about 6 months from transplanting to fruiting. It has an upright stem and keeps blooming all year round. Single fruit weight 1-3 kg, and each plant can produce about 70 kg a year. The highest fruit per plant 130kg. Papaya pulp is thick, sweet and delicious, and rich in nutrition. Its unique papaya enzyme can clear the heart and moisten the lungs and help digestion. It has strong anticancer activity on lymphoblastic leukemia cells. Papaya is resistant to storage and transportation. Natural storage for 1-2 months after harvest, bearing early fruits. In the first year, it achieved a high yield of more than 2,000 kilograms per mu, and planted 250 plants per mu.